Thanks so much. Jane set me off thinking about the shadow being someone different, and then I thought of Death, and then a Twilight Zone episode where a young Robert Redford plays Death, and he ends up being very gentle like that. See mind wandering. 🙂

it is a good thing – in my book at least – writing is sometimes like being a good magician and getting people’s attention on one thing so that you can bring up the dazzle when they are looking the other way…or something like that.

Yes, a gentleness; and I loved how they were both patient. And since it is my business to see odd connections, I will say this took me right back to today’s (teary-eyed) finishing of reading THE BURIED GIANT by Ishiguro.

Oh–I haven’t read it yet. (You didn’t read the end first, did you?)
Jane had me thinking of the shadow as being someone else, and then I thought of a Twilight Zone episode where a young Robert Redford was Death, and he was very patient and gentle.